Born Quote by Kofi Annan Download Open image “No one is born a good citizen or a good democrat or a good leader; it takes time and education.” — Kofi Annan ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.3 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Born Citizens Democrat Education Good citizen Good leader It takes time Leader Leadership Take time Time
No one is born a good citizen; no nation is born a democracy. Rather, both are processes that continue to evolve over a lifetime.… — Kofi Annan Copy Share Image
To be a good citizen, it's important to be able to put yourself in other people's shoes and see the big picture. If everything… — Eli Pariser Copy Share Image
To be a citizen in a democracy, a human being must be given a healthy start. — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Good or bad people can be democratically elected, but it is always easy to fight for human rights under this system. — Asma Jahangir Copy Share Image
Under our Constitution, if you're a bad citizen, you're still a citizen; that's the way we roll. — Steve Bannon Copy Share Image
As it stands now, those of us who are lucky enough to be citizens by birth don't have to do much. Very little is… — Eric Liu Copy Share Image
“Bad politicians are not Born.They are created.Created by the good people who go on a picnic on voting day.” — Avinash Rai Copy Share Image
Just to pile up money for my own sake, I just can't view that as good citizenship. — Walter Annenberg Copy Share Image
As young Americans, you have an important responsibility, which is to become good citizens. — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
Citizenship in the 21st century requires more than paying your taxes and voting and occasionally running for office. That even if you're never in… — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
All our efforts to defeat poverty and pursue sustainable development will be in vain if environmental degradation and natural resource depletion continue unabated. — Kofi Annan Copy Share Image
UN peacekeeping operations are now increasingly complex and multi-dimensional, going beyond monitoring a ceasefire to actually bringing failed States back to life, often after… — Kofi Annan Copy Share Image
We were all children once. And we all share the desire for the well-being of our children, which has always been and will continue… — Kofi Annan Copy Share Image
You will recall that for months after 9/11, there was incredible support and sympathy for the US. I really hoped and wished they had… — Kofi Annan Copy Share Image
A nation has the right to defend itself, but when it comes to the broader issue of peace and security, the legitimacy rests only… — Kofi Annan Copy Share Image
Sometimes when you take a tough action against one side in the conflict, they see you as part of the conflict and they attack… — Kofi Annan Copy Share Image
Some have suggested that ideally there must be some international body that would treat areas like the Arctic as a global commerce, a bit… — Kofi Annan Copy Share Image
In an age of interdependence, global citizenship - based on trust and sense of shared responsibility - is a crucial pillar of progress. At… — Kofi Annan Copy Share Image
We knew the Syrian situation was complex and there were lots of divisions, particularly on the side of the opposition... This is a tough… — Kofi Annan Copy Share Image
The question is the morning after. What sort of Iraq do we wake up to after the bombing? What happens in the region? What… — Kofi Annan Copy Share Image
Can the state, which represents the whole of society and has the duty of protecting society, fulfill that duty by lowering itself to the… — Kofi Annan Copy Share Image
My mother says I didn't open my eyes for eight days after I was born, but when I did, the first thing I saw… — Elizabeth Taylor Copy Share Image
I always thought if I was born 2000 years earlier, I would be a monk, probably carving a monastery or some giant pantheon buildings. — Jenova Chen Copy Share Image
The real world out there isn't nearly as nice as some people prefer it to be, so don't swallow everything your high-born teachers tell… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Anybody looking for a quiet life has picked the wrong century to born in. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I was born and raised in Orlando, where the economy and culture has been powerfully shaped by tourism, and so I've long been interested… — Laura van den Berg Copy Share Image
I know that in the rap game you've got a lot of people, that come from poverty, was born in poverty and if it… — Jon Connor Copy Share Image
Nothing old is ever reborn but neither does it totally disappear. And that which has once been born, will always reappear in a new… — Alvar Aalto Copy Share Image
I have lifted my plane . . . for perhaps a thousand flights and I have never felt her wheels glide from the Earth… — Beryl Markham Copy Share Image
If there is any period one would desire to be born in, is it not the age of Revolution; when the old and the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Must I go bound while you go free Must I love a manwho doesn't love me Must I be born with so little art… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
I'm not against gay people. I have a relative who is also gay. We can't help it if they were born that way. — Manny Pacquiao Copy Share Image
For the glory born of Goodness Never dies, And its flag is not half-masted In the skies. — Bret Harte Copy Share Image